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Astronomical and navigational instruments

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3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models

Astrolabes and quadrants

Celestial navigation

Charting instruments

Compasses

Course, speed and distance indicators

Electronic navigation

Exploring the Arctic

Globes

Globes and globe gores

Herschel family

Meteorological instruments

Optical equipment

Popular Astronomy

Sundials

Telescopes

Telescopes at the Royal Observatory Greenwich

Telescopes Online Gallery

The Herschels as experimenters

The Herschels as instrument makers

The many faces of the telescope

Coins and medals

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Coins

Commemorative medals

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

Naval General Service Medal 1793-1840

Orders and medals

Recent acquisitions

The Naval Gold Medal

Type

Accommodation model

Accommodation model accommodation model

A Flamsteed House model

Alidade

Altazimuth instrument model

astronomical t&e: altazimuth (Airy's)

astronomical t&e: telescope, astrographic (Christie's)

astronomical t&e: telescope, reflecting (Christie's 30in)

astronomical t&e: telescope, reflecting (Dyson's 36in)

astronomical t&e: telescope, reflecting (Herschel's 40ft)

astronomical t&e: telescope, refracting (Airy's 12.5in)

astronomical t&e: telescope, refracting (Christie's 26in)

astronomical t&e: telescope: mural circle (Maskelyne's 6ft)

astronomical t&e: telescope: transit circle, reversible (Spencer-Jones)

Boat model

building: observatory

Chart

clothing, outerwear: uniform: dress, mess

clothing, outerwear: uniform: mess uniform, Director of WRNS's

Compass

Counter

Decking

documentary artifact: model, altazimuth instrument

documentary artifact: model, Flamsteed House

documentary artifact: model, mural arc

documentary artifact: model, mural circle

documentary artifact: model, quadrant

documentary artifact: model, sextant

documentary artifact: model, telescope

documentary artifact: model, transit circle telescope

documentary artifact: model, transit instrument

drafting t&e: sector

Drawing

Dress, mess

Dry card compass box lid

Flamsteed House model

Floorboard

Floorboard Support

Full hull

Full hull; Accommodation model; Plank-on-frame

Full hull model

Full hull model; Accommodation model

Full hull model; Accommodation model; Decking

Full hull model; Accommodation model; Floorboard Support

Full hull model; Accommodation model; Hatch Cover

Full hull model; Accommodation model; Paddle Cover

Full hull model; Accommodation model; Stand

Georgian, Accommodation model

Georgian, Full hull accommodation model

Hatch Cover

Horizontal pedestal dial

Horizontal sun and moon pedestal dial

Lid

Manuscript

Map

Medal

Mess dress

Model, sextant

Model of a mural arc

Model of a sextant

Model of a transit instrument

Model quadrant

Model telescope

Model transit instrument

Mural arc model

Mural circle model

Nail

Navy Board, Accommodation model

original art: picture, woolwork

original art: print

Paddle Cover

Painting

picture, woolwork

Plank-on-frame

Plank-on-frame accommodation model

presentation artifact: case, toothpick

Scalpels

Sector

Ship model

Signalling lamp

Stand

surveying & navigational t&e: alidade

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, dry card

surveying & navigational t&e: quadrant

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant (Flamsteed's 7ft)

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, mural arc (Flamsteed's 7ft)

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, transit instrument (Bradley's 8ft)

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, transit instrument (Halley's 5ft)

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, transit instrument (Pond's 10ft)

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: quadrant, mural (Bradley's 8ft)

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: quadrant, mural (Halley's 8ft)

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: transit circle (Airy's)

Technical drawing

timekeeping t&e: clock, longcase

timekeeping t&e: dial, fixed: dial, horizontal(octagonal garden dial)

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, equinoctial

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, horizontal

Toothpick case

Topographic model

Universal equinoctial ring dial

visual communication t&e: lamp, signalling

Watercolour

water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, armoured

water transport: model, exhibition: accommodation(decked: equipped)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped)

water transport: recreation vessel: yacht

water transport: recreation vessel: yacht, sliding keels

water transport: steam vessel: yacht

Woolwork picture

Materials

aquatint & etching, coloured

aquatint, coloured

black ink

black insepia ink

blue ink

board

body colour

bone

brass

bronze

canvas

card

coating: enamel

copper

engraving

engraving & etching

engraving, coloured

engraving, steel

engraving, with etching

engraving, with etching, hand- coloured

etching

etching & mezzotint, sea-green

etching, coloured

fruitwood

gilt

glass

gold

ink

inorganic: glass

laminate

leather

linen

lithograph

metal: brass

mezzotint

oil on canvas

paint

paper

pen

pencil

red ink

reproduction

sepia ink

stain

steel

stipple engraving

tin

varnish

velvet

watercolour

waxed linen

wood

wool

Display Location

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Display - ROG

Display - Voyagers

Not on display

Creator

Allan, William

Allen

Allen & Co

Allen & Hanbury's

Allen & Moore

Allen & Sons

Allen & West

Allen, A. H.

Allen, Alfred

Allen, B. G.

Allen, C. J.

Allen, Elias

Allen, G. H.

Allen, George S.

Allen, H. R.

Allen, J.

Allen, J. B.

Allen, J. G.

Allen, James Baylis

Allen, James Charles

Allen, Jean

Allen, John

Allen, Kim

Allen, M.

Allen, Thomas

Allen, W.

Allen, W. H.

Allen, William

Allen West & Co. Ltd

Bowles & Carver

Bowles, Carington

Bowles, John

Canot, Pierre Charles

Chambers, Allen H.

Chambers, George

Clay, Thomas

Cruikshank, Isaac

Duval, Charles Allen

Elphinstone, W. B.

Elwon, T.

Francia, Francois Louis Thomas

Harding & Lepard

Harry Allen

Haverty, J

Hawkins, George

Henry Gastineau

HM Admiralty

Hogarth, J.

Hunt, Allen

Hurst, Robinson & Co

J. Weiss & Son

James S. Vertue & Co Ltd

Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen

Kirkall, Elisha

Lefevre, M

Lister, Francis Allen

Milliken, R.

Monamy, Peter

Moore, John

Moresby, Robert

Neele

P. & D. Colnaghi & Co Ltd

Pullen, William John Samuel

Pyall, H

Reilly, after

Robert Havell & Son

Rogers, W P

Steel, P.

Turner, Joseph Mallord William

United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)

Velde, Willem van de, the Elder

Virtue, George

Virtue, James S.

W. H. Allen, Sons & Co. Ltd

Walker, J. & C.

Walker, John

Whish, R. W.

William Allen

Wilton & Allen Eade

Woodward, George Murgatroyd

Worthington, William Henry

Zanetti & Agnew

Places

Brighton

City of London

England

London

Unknown

Wapping

Events

Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish Armada, 1588

Antarctic Exploration: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916

Construction of Plymouth breakwater,1842-1844

Embarkation of Queen Charlotte, 1761

First Anglo-Burmese War, 1824-1826

Foundation of Liverpool, 1207

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

Voyage from China to England of the Keying, 1846-1848

Vessels

Achilles (1920)

Actaeon (1775)

Ajax (1767)

Arethusa (1781)

Artois (1780)

Catherine (1720)

Charlotte (1677)

Charlotte [British]

Cyclops (1839)

Dolphin (1822)

Duke of Wellington (1852)

Fubbs (1724)

Great Eastern (1858)

Hornet (1854)

Keying 1846 [Chinese]

Leviathan (1858)

Mars [Dutch navy]

Mary (1677)

Mary 1727 [British]

Newcastle 1936 [HMS]

Nottingham (1745)

Nymphe (captured 1780)

Royal Charlotte [ex- Royal Caroline) (1750)

Tynwald (1937)

Warspite (1884)

Whitby class frigate group record

Exhibition

Voyagers

People

Airy, George Biddell

Allen, B. G.

Allen, Kim

British Army

British Fleet

Christie, William Henry Mahoney

Cobden, Richard

Delehar, Peter

Dyson, Frank Watson

Flamsteed, Reverend John

Halley, Edmond

Halliday, Edmund

Hunt, Allen

Jones, Harold Spencer

Kellett, Charles Alfred

Kettlewell, Dame Marion

King George IV

Macklin, Alexander Hepburne

Maskelyne, Nevil

Napier, Charles John

Nelson, Frances Herbert

Nelson, Horatio

Pond, John

Prince Albert, Consort of Queen Victoria

Queen Charlotte, Consort of George III

Queen Victoria

Schanck, John

Science Museum Group

Smith, William Sidney

Spanish Armada

Stuart, William

VII, King Edward

Walker & Burgess Engineers

Wharton, William James Lloyd

Wharton Testimonial Fund, Committee of the

Women's Royal Naval Service

Century

17th

18th

19th

20th

unknown

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Workbook, volume 1, compiled by J. G. Allen (Manuscript)

Blenheim (1940) (Technical drawing)

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